. >> chris: you would vote for the stripped-down obama plan. >> i would go for what the speaker tried to do late last week and try to get the number up, and, yes, the tax increase on the wealthy, i would try to protect investments as much as possible and keep dividends at reasonable rates, and, do the amt patch and a reasble deal on state taxes, but i'm a squish on this, and totally, you have to make -- you have to make the best of a bad situation and i think what will happen, incidentally, is republicans will be faced by monday, on december 31st with having to vote on a much worse proposal, than the one they didn't give speaker boehner the majority for. >> chris: plan b. >> harry reid will pass through the senate on thursday or friday, the tax hike on everybody over $250,000 and republicans will have a choice on monday in the house of, letting it coming to a vote, the speaker probably has to and b, will they lose 20 or 30 republicans to join the democrats, and, toass it or not and i think it is the worst outcome, but, that is what happens, when, republicans decided they would be obst